Across
- 3. The United States Constitution, adopted as the supreme law of the nation in 1788.
- 7. The theory that the “right” moral act is the one that produces the greatest good for society.
- 9. The idea, built into the structure of the Constitution, that states and the federal government have concurrent powers.
- 10. A theory that judges the morality of choices not by results (or “goods”) but by adherence to duty discerned by rational thought.
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- 1. The idea that people in a civil society have voluntarily given up some of their freedoms to have ordered liberty with the assistance of a government that will support that liberty.
- 2. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
- 4. Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution is generally regarded as the legal authority by which the federal government can make law that governs commerce among the states and with foreign nations.
- 5. Aristotle’s perspective on finding happiness through the application of reason in human affairs advises continual practice to develop habits of virtuous moral character.
- 6. Goods that are useful to society (parks, education, national defense, highways) that would ordinarily not be produced by private enterprise.
- 8. The name given to President Franklin Roosevelt's programs to redress economic inequality and provide employment during the Great Depression.